Secret surveillance powers of authorities are reaching unprecedented levels in the Digital Age, raising challenges for the protection of human rights such as the right to privacy. In her inaugural address at Tilburg University ...
Security
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Hate crimes against LGBT+ residents in deprived neighbourhoods risk going unrecorded because housing associations rarely enquire about tenants' sexual or gender identity, research has found.
Social Sciences
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Additive manufacturing is the process of creating an object by building it one layer at a time. It is the opposite of subtractive manufacturing, in which an object is created by cutting away at a solid block of material until ...
Engineering
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Silence of the WA outback key in detecting low-frequency radio waves and, maybe, the precursors of life itself.
Astronomy
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Not every partnership in the animal kingdom is fair and equal.
Plants & Animals
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Islands are places of myth and wonder that have fascinated people for centuries. They're also places to find odd versions of some familiar animals.
Ecology
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For many reasons, Venus is sometimes referred to as "Earth's twin" (or "sister planet," depending on who you ask). Like Earth, it is terrestrial (i.e. rocky) in nature, composed of silicate minerals and metals that are differentiated ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2017
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Name all the billion-dollar crops grown in the U.S. Midwest. The answer: Corn, soybeans and cranberries. Wait, what?
Environment
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Recently, a number of institutional investors, including Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in Canada and Norway's sovereign wealth fund, announced their intent to reduce their exposure in investments linked to fossil ...
Environment
Dec 11, 2017
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It is often said that we know more about the surface of other planets than we do about our own deep ocean. To overcome this problem, we embarked on a voyage on CSIRO's research vessel, the Southern Surveyor, to help map Australia's ...
Earth Sciences
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